Hand capper



45 oted pawl in tilting position. Fig. 6 is a full size "Patented Feb. 26.1935 Y 1,992,567

nAnn'oAPrEn. I Harry L. Compton, Washington. D: 0.. assignor' to American Dairy Supply Company, Washing- ,ton, D. 0., a corporation of .Maine I j Application March .23, 193s, s ria1 No. 2,335

'4 Claims. (01.;226-92) This invention relates particularly to handcap of any suitable metallalloy that will render the pers used inapplying coverall or disk caps to milk whole of adequate strength 'and resistance to wear, bottles, and more generally to any mechanical at the same time materially-reduce its weight to apparatus for like operation.v I I I permit quick and convenient handling and'oper- It is an object of this invention to provide-an ation. g J o 5 appliance by which the closure maybe placed se- Considering the drawings, a handle 1 actuates curely upon the bottle and 'the'capping plunger a capping plunger 2 which carries a transverse raised without disturbing the position o fgthe pin 3 arranged to move up and, down in averbottle. This is accomplished by meansof an extical guide slot 4 in the casing. or body. 5 of the tension of the casing or outer portion'of the -cap invention. A finger. piece. 6 may be provided to 10 per comprising a hollow cylinder or the equivalent hold the implement down'upon a bottle when the which admits the top of the bottle and contacts plunger is being raised. V I

I circularly with the enlargement of the bottle be- Extendingdownwar-dly from the casing 5 are low the top. By means of suchextension the capaxially aligned cylindrical extensions? and 8; It

5 per may be held down upon the bottle while-the willbe observed that the extension 8 admits amilk plungeris raised. It is a further object of thisinbottle and ,contactswith the. same below the top vention'to'construct a capping implement or maof the bottle exteriorly where-the bottle enlarges, chine wherein the cap serving mechanism is acas such bottles are commonly formed.- tuated directlyorindirectly by the plunger .move- The bottle is referred to by number-.9.

ments up and down, andwherein the plunger is As illustrated in Fig. 1., and as shown entirein 20 raised sufiiciently -to remove it from the path of Fig. 4, a sliding locking plate has an inclined end the cap being served into capping position, in 10 normally located across the vertical guide slot order that there may be no interference with the 4, 'I'heZplate as'a whole marked '11., His mov free and repeated operation. It isagain an'object ably carried in a guiding channeled .member'l3;

v of this invention to introduce a pivoted pawl or and is fashioned with an angular end :or nose 12. 25 I the like operated bythe'movementsrof-the plunger The member .13 is borne by, the-:shorte'r-leg' 14- ref and by which the pile of capsin the usual 'magae the angular lever having the longer leg 1'5: and, zine willg be temporarily tilted during the serving constituting an 'elcmentof the cap :servingmechaction to obviate any hindrancedue to thejnestanism actuated by the plunger; The terms eming of skirted caps sometimes'called coverall caps. ployed to designate the different parts are in- 30' The devices comprising this-invention, and their tended only for the purposes of thisdescription; arrangement areillustrated in the accompanying on the lever leg 14 is .a projecting headed pin 16 drawings, W Ch al ep e t a Si view that engages one end of a spring. 17 whichihas of a hand capper constructed in accordance with its other end coil about a pin 18 projecting from this invention, partly in section, and setting forth the sliding lock plate 11. The contraction of the 35 all the parts assembled. "Fig. 2 is a front or flatspring tends always to project the nose 12 of the side view of the upper leg o the angular ve locking plate towards the end of the lever leg 14,

showing the spring controlled locking plate or as 111 be understood; h pin 13 works in slide. Fig. 3 is a cross section taken on the broken th i slot 19 in the lever leg. I V 0 line Of 2 showing the locking plate and AS best shown 2 the lever leg has an itsguiding supports in normal position. Fig. 4 L shaped recess 20 Opening downwardly, and r is a front or flatside view of the locking plate. when theplunge'r 2 is raised the pin 3 enters this Fig. 5 is a side view of this invention similar to recess as represented in F showingthe plunger raised and the When the parts are positioned as set out in i Fig; 1, the nose 12 of the sliding lock 11 engages vertical section of the downward extension ofthea locking notch 21 in the edge of a lock plate 22 casing or body of this invention, showing the manher in which a'contact 'is made with a milk bot- T not-ch 21 1s heist shown m Flgj' me when cappei Forming a portion of the cap serv ng mecha- Throughout the description and drawings the the link 23 1s Pwotauy cennected to the 50 e number is used to refe to t Same part lower end of the long leg- 15 of the angular lever,

1-, is t intended t t, t invention t and movable back and forth on a suitable supthe precise forms or sizes of the various parts port 24 is the p Serving Slide 5- t is not indelineated, and it is held to be within the purtended to limit this invention to the special cap view of this invention to manufacture the parts serving mechanism illustrated, as there are many 55 such mechanisms in common use which could be readily substituted.

Considering Fig. 1, there will be noted a vertical groove 26 in the plunger 2, and arranged to slightly enter the groove is the lesser end of a rocker piece 27, and a pivoted pawl 29 has a circular head engaging the rocker piece movably. A spring 28yieldingly holds the rocker piece in the position substantially as set out in Fig. 1. It will be observed in Figs. 1 and 5, that a the pivots of the rocker 27 and pawl 29 arein substantially vertical alignment one above anv other. When the rocker is moved by the plunger from the normal position in Fig. 1 into the-raised position in Fig. 5, the engagement of the rounded head of the pawl with its seat in the rockerturns the pawl and causes its point to enter below the cap next to the lowest and tilt the same so that the lowest cap is no longer nested and may be pushed into capping position I v In' the operation of this invention it "is desired to serve caps 30 'into positions's'uch as illustrolling spring, and free the nose of the locking .5 plate from the patch of the stationary notched plate secured t'o'the casing; The cap serving mechanism now-operates, but the 'lowerendof the plunger has been raised well out of the :way of the served cap. On its downward movement the angular lever is moved "by the plunger and the sliding lock'plate again engages the notch. Thus,'-during' the actual capping action the cap serving inechanism is' held against accidental movement, and ready. toserve another cap. As the plunger lifts the lower end of thelongitudinal, groove therein is reached and the rocker piece is rocked so that the end of the pawl slightly tilts; the pile ofacaps above the lowest cap. The end of the plunge'rrises-above the end' of the rocker piece:.whichmay-"again assume the position in Fig. 1. .But whenthe plunger descends the rocker piece rocked downwardly until the groove is again presented to .its end as before. It is believed to be now made apparent that in the operation the plunger is raised out of the path of the served cap, and the overlying caps of the pile in the magazine are tilted to clear any nested condition and permit free service of the lowest cap into the desired capping position.

I claim as my invention:- v

1.-'In a bottle capping appliance, -a casing, in combination with a plunger movable in the casn a cap magazine for containing a pile of caps, cap, serving mechanism actuated by the plunger,

a pivoted pawl for temporarily tilting the pile of caps; above the lowest cap, a rocker piece arranged tooperatethe pawl, and the said rocker piece being operated by the plunger.

2. In a, bottle capping appliance, a casing, in combination with a'plunger movable in the easing, a cap magazine for containing a pile of caps,

cap serving mechanism actuated by the said plunger, a pivoted 'pawl 'for temporarily tilting the pile of capsabovethe lowest cap,-a rocking piece arranged-to operate the pawl, aspring for holding said rocker pieceyieldinglyin a predetermined position; I and the said rocker piece being operated by the plunger." 1

3. In a hand capper; the combination with a casing, of a hand operated capping plunger in the casing, cap serving m'echanism actuated by the plunger, said mechanism=comprising an angular lever having a downwardly extending arm, a cap'feeding slide connectedwith said arm, said lever having an upper arm provided with aslotted end, a sliding lockin the end of said upper arm, a spring controllingsaid lock, a lock plate carried by the casing and-arranged toenage the slidinglock. said casing having'a vertical slot, and a pin carried by the plunger and projecting through said slot and adapted tomove the said sliding lo'ck and the said angular lever.

4. a handcapper, the combination with a casing, of a hand operated capping'plungerin the casing, capserving mechanism actuated by the plungen said mechanism comprising an angular lever having an-upper arm providedwith a sliding spring controlled'lock', said casing hav ing a lock plate arranged to engage-the sliding lock, means carried by the plunger for releasing thelock and angular lever, and the said locking devices being constructed and arranged to hold the said cap serving mechanism inoperative during a part' of the plunger movement.

a 1 HARRY L. COMPTON. 

